[PATCH 00/10] vga_switcheroo, drm: Push fbcon handling into DRM clients
From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Date: 2026-07-07 13:57:32
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amd-gfx, dri-devel, intel-gfx, nouveau, sashiko-reviews
Vga_switcheroo currently invokes fb_switch_outputs() to inform fbcon
about switching of the physical outputs among framebuffer devices. But
new DRM clients to not use fbdev/fbcon and might require their own
vga_switcheroo support. Let's strictly separate them from each other.
Remove fbdev/fbcon from vga_switcheroo. Introduce a pre_switch callback
for vga_switcheroo clients to do the fbcon update. Allows for removing
all direct interactions between vga_switcheroo and fbdev/fbcon.
Also replace the existing reprobe hook with post_switch for symetry.
At the same time, push the fbcon update into DRM's client for fbdev
emulation. Do this with the new DRM client callback acquire_outputs,
so that other clients can have their own handling of vga_switcheroo.
There are only four drivers that support vga_switcheroo: amdgpu,
radeon, i915 and nouveau. Update each of them with the new callbacks.
When vga_switcheroo now invokes pre_switch, each DRM driver forwards
to aquire_outputs and lets the DRM clients handle the new outputs.
Tested with radeon on a notebook with Radeon HD 4225 and HD 5430.
Thomas Zimmermann (10):
drm/edid: Include <linux/fb.h>
drm/client: Add acquire_outputs callback; implement for fbdev
emulation
vga_switcheroo: Add pre_switch callback to client ops
vga_switcheroo: Add post_switch callback to client ops
drm/amdgpu: Implement struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops.pre_switch
drm/i915: Implement vga_switcheroo_client_ops.pre_switch
drm/nouveau: Implement vga_switcheroo_client_ops.pre_switch
drm/nouveau: Implement vga_switcheroo_client_ops.post_switch
drm/radeon: Implement struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops.pre_switch
vga-switcheroo: Remove unused interfaces
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 9 ++++-
drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_fbdev_client.c | 23 ++++++++----
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_event.c | 18 ++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_switcheroo.c | 11 +++++-
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c | 28 +++++++++------
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c | 9 ++++-
drivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c | 41 +++++-----------------
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 8 -----
include/drm/drm_client.h | 14 ++++++++
include/drm/drm_client_event.h | 3 ++
include/linux/vga_switcheroo.h | 30 +++++++++-------
12 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
base-commit: cd8abe2554ec7eba16c1d48ab508732bf93534eb
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